Reply #18: .

[Swamp Rat]

I've tried to have this discussion. :mad: Personally, I would like to know more about the connection between some "people" in the DLC and PNAC. :shrug:

From a thread that was locked (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4226141):

MGKrebs:

Will Marshall runs the policy group at the DLC.

It's called the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI).
http://www.ppionline.org/index.cfm

Will Marshall is a neocon, who signed on to PNAC documents.

PPI accepts major funding from hard core conservative foundations such as the Bradley Foundation.

More here:
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/demleadcoun.php

In the 80's, the DLC feared that the Dem party was losing too much ground and had to be more centrist. The Dem party has primarily been following their model for 15 to 20 years now. Can we finally say that their model, their revolution, has failed?

http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=124&subsecid=307&contentid=253472

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Swamp Rat:

DLC | Blueprint Magazine | July 23, 2005

Valuing Patriotism

American voters know that 9/11 put national security back at the center of politics. Democrats should unify behind a new progressive patriotism.
By Will Marshall

Since 9/11, patriotism has become the most potent "values issue" in U.S. politics. To compete in America's heartland, Democrats must challenge Republicans' claim to be the authentic voice of American patriotism.

(snip)

http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=124&subsecid=307&contentid=253472

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"In the late 1980s, DLC Democrats supported aid to the contras, applauded President Reagan’s “Evil Empire” rhetoric, and offered their support to those militarists calling for missile defense and rejecting arms control negotiations."

(snip)

The DLC and its close associate, the Progressive Policy Institute, are the recipients of grants from many Fortune 500 companies and such right-wing foundations as the Bradley Foundation. Corporate contributors to the Progressive Policy Institute include AT&T Foundation, Eastman Kodak Charitable Trust, Prudential Foundation, Georgia-Pacific Foundation, Chevron, and Amoco Foundation. (17) The Third Way Foundation, an umbrella group of the New Democrats in the DLC, receives funding from the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Ameritech Foundation, and General Mills Foundation. According to one magazine report, the DLC enjoys funding from Bank One, Citigroup, Dow Chemical, DuPont, General Electric, Health Insurance Corporation, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Occidental Petroleum, and Raytheon. (9)

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/demleadcoun.php